Everybody knows that the best thing about Whatsapp is the group chats.

You will be in groups with family, friends, work friends and other circles depending on your hobbies.

In a group chat you can leave your phone for 10 minutes and suddenly there are 60 messages in the group.

When you are part of the chat and waiting for a response it can become a little frustrating when you see that they have read the message and not replied.

Sometimes people get lost in the conversation and other times they just don't want to reply to you - and then they will make an excuse.

"I didn't see the message."

"My phone was upstairs."

A new feature introduced by Whatsapp means that 'tag' in other members of the group chat so to alert them to your message.

As shown in the video above, you simply type in the '@' sign and WhatsApp will automatically give you the option to add a member of the group.

This will be great if you have a specific question for one person in a large chat group, or maybe for just calling out people who could be trying to ignore the question.

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How to stop WhatsApp sharing your phone number with Facebook

WhatsApp announced it will start sharing data with Facebook as part of an update to its privacy policy - the first time the service has changed this in four years.

The updated policy (which came in to force on September 1) gives WhatsApp permission to share user data including phone numbers with Facebook, claiming the move will better connect the two services.

WhatsApp claims that this will allow the social network to suggest phone contacts as friends, and also show you more relevant ads.

But the move has sparked privacy concerns among users, who would worry that their private numbers will be shared among not-so-close friends on Facebook.

However, since the announcement, a workaround has come to light, which lets users opt out of sharing their phone numbers with Facebook.

According to Motherboard , there are actually two ways to opt out, depending on whether you've blindly accepted the terms already, or not.

The first method has to be done before you accept the messaging app's new terms of service. Rather than clicking "agree" button, select the smaller "read more" option below it, and untick the box that reads "Share my WhatsApp account information with Facebook..."

The second method is for those who have already accepted those new terms. Since you have 30 days to opt out, you're still within your rights to backtrack on your initial acceptance of the policy.

Head to the app's settings menu, and then select the "account" tab. From there, untick the box reading "Share my account info" to prevent any sharing of user data with Facebook.

When announcing the policy update, WhatsApp promised "we won't post or share your WhatsApp number with others, including on Facebook, and we still won't sell, share, or give your phone number to advertisers."

But if you're still worried about the changes, this gives you the option to block any data sharing for the time being.

Simple WhatsApp trick will change the font in your messages - here's how to do it

If you want to change up the look of your WhatsApp messages then a simple way to do it is swap the font around.

Not many people know about the function, but it's a quick way to give your chats a bit of customisation.

All you have to do is add three ` characters to your conversation.

So, for example, you could say ```How's it going?``` - and your message would be converted into the new font.

We tried it for ourselves and can confirm that it does work.

However, if you're using an iPhone, you may struggle to find this character as it's not included on the default iOS keyboard - you'll have to download another keyboard from the App store.

Android users will find the key in their default keyboard.

WhatsApp has a history of slowly (and discreetly) adding new text styles to its app. Back in March the company made it possible to write in bold or italics.

All you have to do is add asterisks either side of a word to make it bold or underscores to make it italic.

So, for example, typing *bold* would give you bold and typing _italic_ would give you italic.